After a quick look at the week's top headlines, Rich shares some thoughts about his visit last week to the annual meeting of managed services co-op The 20 and Matt shares some thoughts of his own about why QWERTY keyboards are likely to remain the preferred means of getting text into computers indefinitely.

That's followed by a visit to a venerable IBM keyboard from years gone by in Matt's tech museum, a quick peek at a "clicky but quiet" present day keyboard from CHERRY, and a discussion of how cultivating application development skills can help channel pros strengthen margins and differentiate themselves from a sea of indistinguishable cloud resellers.

Somewhere in there, Rich suggests an absolutely brilliant new name for an artificial intelligence solution too. Trademark it fast before he does!

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Show Information:

Episode #: 053 Title: An AI Named Smartypants Duration: 1:29:44 File size: 41.4MB Regulars: Rich Freeman - Senior News Editor, Matt Whitlock - Technology Editor

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• Where's Joel?
• Matt's Museum pick: IBM Model M keyboard
• Matt's tech pick: CHERRY MX Board Silent keyboard
• Rich's ICYMI preview